Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians
Volume recording details of attendance and proceedings of weekly meetings relating to the maintenance, administration and financing of the workhouse, distribution of out-door relief, and the care of workhouse inmates relating to their accommodation and employment, and to medical, pastoral, educational, and dietary needs. Minutes include details on the number of persons accommodated in the workhouse, and the number receiving outdoor relief ; confirmation that various reports, financial and other records, such as the Workhouse Register, Provision Check Accounts, Out-door Relief Lists, Medical Officers’ books and reports of the Visiting Committee, the workhouse Master and other Officers’ were produced, examined and approved together with details of required action relating to the information provided therein, and details of all monies received or paid, and all orders and cheques given, such as those required for the supply of food and clothing; details of rates collected, arrears, and declared irrecoverably in each electoral division ; also includes details of orders and letters received from or written to the Poor Law Commissioners and others, and details of subsequent resolutions passed and instructions issued authorising required action; details of the master’s report and resolutions adopted to address any issues raised therein ; and from 1854 provision is included for minutes of the proceedings of the Board under the Medical Charities Acts and Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention Acts, and subsequently under Public Health Acts ; from 1874 the proceedings of the Board as the Sanitary Authority are recorded ; and from 1893 the proceedings of the Board of Guardians acting as the Rural Sanitary Authority under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts are included.
The minutes are generally dated, and signed by the Clerk of the Union, the Chairman. Several volumes include an index to main resolutions passed and subjects discussed.
Includes
- ' Letter from the Local Government Board No. 65,774 dated 19th December, 1913 referring to the Guardians Minutes of the 6th instant and stating that they have sanctioned the proposal to allow the Master of the Workhouse a Bonus of five per cent on all monies collected by him and lodged to the credit of the Union in respect of the cost of maintenance of inmates and on the profits of the farm for the current and past half-years' (p11)